Red alert
sounds the alarm.
The next animated film from Pixar studio will be released exclusively on the Disney + platform on March 11, 2022, the US distributor announced on Friday in a press release.
The next feature film from the creators of the
Toy Story
saga will only receive a theatrical launch in countries where Disney's streaming service is not yet available.
This is not the case in France, where the film will therefore also be available on Disney +,
Le Figaro
was able to confirm .
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As for
Soul
and
Luca
before him, Pixar's two previous animated films, this digital migration of the launch of
Red Alert is
heard in an American and global context still weighed down by a tense health situation and uncertain effects on attendance. rooms.
"Given the delay in the box office resumption, especially with regard to family films, flexibility remains at the heart of our distribution decisions,"
Kareem Daniel, president of Disney Media & said in a statement Friday in a statement. Entertainment Distribution.
Red Alert
will nevertheless be offered free of charge to service subscribers.
A box office energized again
Like the other films in the Disney catalog to have benefited from an exclusive digital release,
Red Alert
will probably be welcomed in turn in dark rooms as soon as the health situation improves. In France, the new epidemic outbreak linked to the Omicron variant of Covid-19 has also started to have an effect on the schedule of very mainstream films. The comedies
What do we all have in the good god?
and
Building permits
have thus been postponed for two months, UGC announced this week.
Pixar's twenty-fifth animated film,
Red Alert
is the studio's first feature film to be entirely entrusted to director Domee Shi. The Canadian filmmaker was awarded the Oscar for best animated short film in 2019, for
Bao
, the story of a
baozi
- a stuffed and steamed brioche, a traditional dish of Chinese cuisine - which takes life.
Red Alert
(
Turning Red,
in its English title), meanwhile, tells the fantastic story of Mei. On the threshold of adolescence, this brilliant and superactive 13-year-old girl discovers a rather embarrassing power one day: she transforms into a giant red panda as soon as she feels strong emotions.